Sorrel Langley-Hobbs graduated from and completed her internship and orthopaedic residency at The Royal Veterinary College, London. She gained her RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics) in 1997 and her ECVS Diploma in Small Animal Surgery in 1999.

She spent six months at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 before she moved back to the UK and worked at Cambridge University until 2013.
She is now Professor of Feline Orthopaedics at the University of Bristol. She was awarded the BSAVA Simon Award in 2012 for outstanding contributions in the field of small animal surgery.

She has co-edited a textbook on Feline Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Disease in 2009 and Feline Soft Tissue and General Surgery in 2013. She has a particular interest in feline orthopaedics and publishes widely in this area. She still does operate on dogs, especially those with fractures and sighthounds.